March 2011
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Light Fades
In the studio, all too many things are difficult and when they aren’t…you get deeply suspicious. @sawdoctors
Recording “Light Fades” was one of those moments, and that song is as it sounds…a creation born of a relaxed, dark evening - the Saw Docs all playing together in the big room at Grouse, a remote place in the middle of Ireland with the rain no doubt not far away. After...
It's Done.
It’s Done.
By “it” I mean the Grimus album is here, all mastered and finished.
It was an epic journey.
You can read about making IT, and other terribly personal stuff HERE on my blog.
I re-read it and it made me smile and I hope if you read it, it does the same for you.
I know I could have made it better, tweaked some things in the mix, tuned a few things, tweezed,...
Jehovacoat/See, told you
Among my friends and brothers I am very honored to have one Lord Yatesbury, the Julian Cope, he who does what it says on the tin, & a Mister Holy McGrail
who is probably the best web designer and graphics guy on the planet not to mention world-beating fiddler of monolithic, monophonic knobs and creator of bowel loosening classics such as “Raw Power Suite” and “Collecting...
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scorps.
Scorpions.
One of…two German bands I can recall being any good, ever. Oh, them and Boney M. But that’s off topic. That’s just evil producer-as-puppet-master shit. Yum. Hot.
But then - I loved Udo Dirkshneider’s thing , and the whole Accept - “your manager writing the lyrics thus making you appear homoerotic only because she was a woman and said what she felt”...
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H.P.M
So. “When we were young…” (you say that more as you get older b.t.w, just a heads up) …it was an amazing thing for people you knew, or in this case..people who you knew - actually knew - Matt - to have made a real, in the flesh record to rumple, fetish and admire.
Now, some time later, my theory on the importance-of-just-fuckin-existing is ever proved more true as I finally...
